There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.